I think you’re probably right. I think you’ll probably see an influx of people using WordPress not only as a blogging tool but as a whole site solution. btw, it was great hanging with you in Vegas. Take care.

Is not Pingdom biased anyway, running WordPress themselves? There really should have been a disclaimer about that somewhere 🙂

It would be interesting to compare this with data from other blog ranking sites. But most, including Technorati, require you to register your blog with them. So you loose all those that don’t bother registering. Of course they are probably unlikely to make it to the top 100.

WordPress.org is one of the best blog platform. But I have much trouble with this. Why I didn’t see “stats” in wordpress dashboard? I’ve installed WP_plugin “Stats” but it must be activated from wordpress.com. Anyone can help me?

For all the people I’ve helped install/upgrade over the years I found one thing to be true. People in general do not like to upgrade…anything. Not computers, phones, software or WordPress for that matter.

About 6 months ago I finally had to draw the line at upgrading any WP install below 2.3 and now I’m thinking of changing that to 2.5 here real soon.

It’s amazing how many folks out there are still running 2.2.1 for example, with severely outdated plugins and databases that have had not a single bit of maintenance done since WordPress was first installed.

But it’s not just upgrading WordPress in particular that’s the problem. It’s your average user that just seem to despise (more or less) upgrading in itself.

With all due respects to all those “average users” who always keep things up to date. 😉

I sincerely wish to be placed in the list, but, my blog is a one man show, as many of the others are. So, I am fine if WordPress stays free and caters to the needs of the bloggers. No hard dreams of staying in 100 and blowing off my torch. 🙂

I’ve written a blog on Typepad since 2003 and only in the last 6 months changed over to WordPress. I think the variety of applications available and the ability to self host makes a far more secure and flexible platform. As long as the “community” continues to be well supported, I expect to see a growth in the numbers of authors using the medium

I spent my first year with my website maintaining it through my server’s program in cPanel. It was a real pain. My blog was separate from my site, and with Word Press. I was so excited when I learned that I could use Word Press for both and switched everything to it. Thanks for your great technology. I love it and believe Word Press will remain No. 1 for years to come.